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“Fa come natura fece in foco”: Glassworks Exhibit at the Venice Biennale

August 12, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

padiglione-vezenia-biennale“In 1972, glass ceased to have its own section at the Venice Biennale, when the inclusion of what were considered ‘decorative arts’ was abandoned. But at this year’s event, glass has made a comeback in two separate shows: ‘Glasstress,’ an official parallel exhibition at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti on the Grand Canal, and ‘Fa come natura fece in foco,’ which borrows a line from Dante’s Divine Comedy (‘Do as nature does in the flame’) [Paradiso IV, 59] to evoke the fiery glass furnaces of Murano, at the Padiglione Venezia in the Biennale’s Castello Gardens (both until Nov. 22).” [. . .]    –Roderick Conway Morris, The New York Times, August 7, 2009

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2009, Glassworks, Italy, Paradiso, Venice

“Young Idols With Cleavers Rule the Stage”

July 8, 2009 By

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“. . .The roots of the butcher as an icon of cool might be found in the writings of Bill Buford, who fashioned an operatic meat hero out of Dario Cecchini, a towering, Dante-spouting butcher from the Chianti countryside. Mr. Buford immortalized him in an article for The New Yorker and in his book ‘Heat.'” [. . .]    –Kim Severson, The New York Times, July 7, 2009.
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See also: Buford’s book, “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany” and his 2006 article “Carnal Knowledge: How I Became a Tuscan Butcher” in The New Yorker.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, Cooking, Gastronomy, Italy, Journalism, Meat, Memoirs, Non-Fiction

Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo (1947)

July 7, 2009 By D. N. Israel

primo-levi-if-this-is-a-man-1947Primo Levi’s harrowing account of life in Auschwitz includes many references to Dante’s Commedia, most noticeably in the chapter called “Canto di Ulisse.” In the chapter, Levi recounts a scene where he and a French prisoner discuss books from their respective homes. The canto of Ulysses (Inferno 26) comes to his mind and he recites several lines from it.

The memoir Se questo è un uomo (If This is a Man) appeared in English translation as Survival in Auschwitz. The chapter “Canto di Ulisse” is but one of many references to Dante not only in Se questo è un uomo but also across the rest of Levi’s corpus; we recommend consulting the works on the bibliography for more on Levi’s relationship to Dante’s works.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1947, Holocaust, Italy, Memoirs, Memory, Non-Fiction, Ulysses, War, WWII

Metamorfosi, “Inferno” (1972) and “Paradiso (2004)

July 7, 2009 By

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This Italian progressive rock band released “Inferno” in 1972 and, 32 years later, “Paradiso.” The album tracks correspond with Dante’s journey through the afterlife, although in some cases the musicians did alter some of the sins punished in hell.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1972, 2004, Inferno, Italy, Paradiso, Progressive Rock

Garage Inferno, Florence, Italy

June 26, 2009 By Gretchen Williams '14

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Photo by Alex Bertland, 2009

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2009, Florence, Humor, Inferno, Italy

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